Collar button



oct. 2s, 1924. y 1,513,391

c. A. HARMS COLLAR BUTTON Filed Novb 2C)i 1 923 gjm/vernice,

l Char/sHarns Fatentevcl Oct. 1924.

COLLAR BUTTON.

Applcaton led November 20, 1923.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES A. linens, a citizen of the United States, residing at lndianapolis, in the county of Marion and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Collar Buttons, of which the following is a specifica tion.

My said invention relates to collar buttons and it is an object of the same to produce a button which may be used in the manner of an ordinary collar button but which may also be used for example on a shirt the collar of which has shrunk so as to make the same too small for use in the ordinary manner.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, which are made a part hereof and on which similar reference characters indicate similar parts,

Figure 1 is a perspective showing my device as it appears in use, y

Figure 2, a perspective of the button itself, and

Figures 3, 4 and 5 plan views partially in section showing the device in use.

In the drawings reference character 10 indicates the base of the collar button which may be round substantially as in those now in use. A neck 11 extends upward from this base, said neck having a head 12. Flanges 13 extend in opposite directions from the base and they are provided at their ends with hooks 14. Figure 3 shows the device in use as an ordinary collar button with the neck 11 projecting through open` ings 15 and 16 at the opposed edges of a shirt or other garment. In Figure if the button is shown in use on a shirt which is somewhat too small by reason of the shrinking of the collar band or for any other reason. In this ligure the neck 11 projects through the button hole 15 but the button hole 16 is engaged by one of the hooks 14 thereby affording an increase in the operative diameter of the shirt band. In Figure 5 Serial No. 675,897.

a still further increase is afforded, the neck 11 projecting between the margins of the shirt bosom and the respective hooks 14 engaging button holes 15 and 16.

Variousmodifications may be made in myv device without departing from the spirit of the invention and therefore I do not limit myself to what is shown in the drawings and described in the specification, but onlv as indicated in the appended claims.

Having thus fully described my said in vention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

1. A collar button comprising a base having a fiat side, a head, and a neck, and extensions at opposite edges of the base having their ends inturned toward said neck on the same side of the base, substantially as set forth.

2. A device for securing a collar to the neckband of a shirt, comprising a member having a substantially Hat side, neckband engaging elements on the opposite side at the ends of said member and a collar engaging element between said neckband eri-.70 gaging elements on the same side of said member, substantially as set forth.

3. A device for securing a collar to the neckband of a shirt, comprising a collar engaging element having a base with a substantially fiat under side, a collar-engaging neck, diametrically opposed elements on saidbase having their ends inturned toward each other in substantially the plane of said base to provide neckband engagingl portions, substantially as set forth.

. In witness whereof, I have hereunto ser'.I my hand and seal at Indianapolis, Indiana.y this 14th day of November, A. l). nineteen hundred and twenty-three.

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